Improvement in portable fence



PLFETERS.- PHDTULITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D C strut (eww,

CORNELIUS R. IIIGH'I, OF GENEVA, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 90,751, dated June 1, 1869.

IMPROVEMENI IN PORTABLE FENICE.

The Schedule referred to :in these Letters Patent and making part of the name.

To all whom t't may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS R. Hien'r, of Geneva, county of Kane, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Fences, which I call 0. It. Hights Improved Portable Pcket-Fence; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference'beng had to the annexed drawings, and letters marked thereon, making part of this specitication, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of three (3) sections, showing the connection and arrangements ofthe fence complete.

Figure 2 is a sectional view of one (l) section disconnected.

Figure 3 is a. view of two (2) sections, showing the mode of connecting the same.

Figure 4 is a raill composed of two (2) pieces, be-

vwhich pass the lower short ends of pickets C G, in

setting up th'e sections. (See letter D in iig. 3.)

Letters E E, in fig. 6, represent the points ot' bearing on the front edge of corner-brace, in notches in pickets F F in g. l. The back edge of the brace also forms a bearing against pickets C G, as in fig. 6.

H H, in lig. 2, are open spaces formed to receive the adjoining sections.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I proceed to describe its construction andoperatiou.

I construct my portable fence in sections, set up in a zigzag direction, locked, each to the other, and selfvsupporting, strengthened with ai brace at each corner,

and having much the appearance of an ordinary picketfence, the `zigzag angles excepted. I use no posts in these sections, but one occasionally in setting them up, to keep the fence in position.

These sections, passing one through the other, are firmly 10cked,`one to the other, and naturally run in a zigzag direction, which makes the fence self-supportin g. (See iig. l.)

I place the rails of each section wider at one end than atthe other, to admit the narrow end of one section to pass through the wide end of the next, which brings the end pickets of each section against the outside of the rails of the next, as shown in tig. 1, letters A A.

I make the sections usually twelve (12) feet long and four (4) feet high.

The rails are composed of two (2) pieces, each one inch by four, (1 X4,l) and are bound to each other with a piece of hoop-iron at the inner edge of the rst picket, to prevent'them from spreading apart under any severe pressure. (See fig. 2, at points J J J J The pickets are v4of the same material as the rails, and are placed between the two (2) pieces composing the rails, and nailed through the rails from each side.

`I leave olf the second picket from each end, which forms an open space, through which to pass the end of the next section. (See iig. 2, letters H H.)

These spaces' are closed up by the end pickets of the next sections, when connected as in iig. 1, pickets C G.

I so arrange the pickets on the rails as to present a uniform straight line at the top when set up.

To set up my fence, I :first set a post firmly in the ground at the starting-point, to which I secure, with spikes, or otherwise, the narrow end of the rst section. (See iig. 1, letter t.) This being in position,'I bring the next section 'on the side at right angles with the first, at space H. I raise the forward end, G, and pass the upper projecting point of picket C under the upper rail, through space H; also pass the shortend ot' picket G through notch B, in direction of dotted linev in lig. 2. Then carry the forward end ahead till the pickets O G are brought up against the back of the rails, equally dividing the op'en spaces. I now put on my corner-brace at each angle, which is so fitted as to .forni a rin bearing in notches, and against the four (4) corner-pickets, and rests down on the top rail, and ,becomes stationarily fixed when the sections are brought in position Ihe angles thus supported are very substantial and firm.

I do not claim the invention of any of the sections or parts separate and apart from the others; 'but What I do claim as my invention, and `desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'Ihe combination and arrangement-of the whole, as specified, and set forth in the accompanying specifications and drawings. A

CORNELIUS R. EIGHT.

Witnesses: l

GEO. VW. WATSON, P. F. WARD. 

